Complexity : The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

Waldrop, M. Mitchell

ISBN 10: 0140179682 / ISBN 13: 9780140179682

Verlag: Penguin Books, Limited, 1994

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Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 52002924-20

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Complexity : The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
• Verlag: Penguin Books, Limited
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0140179682
• ISBN-13: 9780140179682
• Bindung: Softcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell - and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. This book is their story - the story of how they have tried to forge what they like to call "the science of the 21st century".